cant load DSMS at start of flight

[bluepilot76]

I dont often make my own missions but been giving it a go recently. First off a simple mission, me, wingman against SA8. Ramp and runway starts. DSMS shows all stores as expected.

 

When I tried to make it a bit more interesting (a few friendly air units and a few extra enemy grund units) I found that my DSMS page had red boxes for the top 4(?) stations on each side. The sidewinders and ECM both showed up though.

No matter what I try I cant get it to show up the stores. I have tried getting the groundcrew to rearm it, they do but no stores shows up, I have reloaded the DSMS, but no stores show up, if I go into the INV part of DSMS it shows red "I"s at the stations, when you click on one it says "check payload-CBU105 detected" or something like that.

 

What am I doing wrong? I tried making a new "complicated" mission from scratch and get the same condition.

[MTFDarkEagle]

Could you upload a track file?

[Eddie]

Upload your mission file and a track.

[nomdeplume]

Did you use the 'prepare mission' option at all? See this thread and/or this thread.

[bluepilot76]

Hi,

I can upload the mission files when I get back to my laptop. I did not save a track but it is easy done.

 

HOWEVER I dont think I did this "prepare mission" thing, I more or less made the mission, saved it, then hit the bllue button (fly it now?), I also tried opening it as a saved mission from the main lobby. In all cases I went into the weapons manager and selected a loadout for the jet.

 

Im just going to have a read those linked threads and will revert.

[bluepilot76]

OK, had a read, sounds like the prepare mission thing is a bad thing to do..

 

Well I dont think I did it, unless that is what the blue "fly it now" button is! Not got the simulator to hand so I cant check...

[nomdeplume]

Nope it's not, prepare mission is accessed from the menubar at the top of the screen. Upload the mission and/or a track from it when you can.

[bluepilot76]

Rgr that, should get them up around midnight UTC.

 

BTW Im not bothered about "fixing" the missions, Im just getting used to the editor, I was more concerned that there was something in the cockpit that I was doing wrong / didnt know how to do..

[bluepilot76]

OK

.miz and track attached! hope it works!

SAM SA 8 PRACTICE.miz

DSMSerror.trk

[nomdeplume]

Hi, I haven't run the mission but I quickly opened it in 7-zip and I can see the DSMS (and other) folders there which implies you have actually used the prepare mission function, even if you don't remember doing so. :)

 

If you follow the instructions in those other posts to open the .miz zipfile up and delete everything except the 'mission' and 'options' files, the problem will disappear.

[bluepilot76]

Hi nomdeplume!,

Thanks for looking at it for me, Im glad it wasnt something I was doing wrong in the cockpit! I will be careful to avoid that option in the ME next time I try it!